By Fidelis Ebu ABUJA — Staff of the   Nigeria Premier League yesterday suffered humiliation as they were forced out of their offices by court bailiffs as well as officers from the Abuja Environmental Protection Board. The stern-looking bailiffs and AEPB officers had arrived the premises of the NPL at about 9:30 a.m. and immediately ordered […]

By John Egbokhan Former Super Eagles’   Coach, Augustine Eguavoen, is angling for a  contract extension from Enyimba, as his one year deal nears it end with the end of the football season. The former Super Eagles’ defender, who is  relishing his spell at two-time CAF Champions League winners, Enyimba, who, at the weekend, lifted the […]

By Fidelis Ebu ABUJA — Staff of the   Nigeria Premier League yesterday suffered humiliation as they were forced out of their offices by court bailiffs as well as officers from the Abuja Environmental Protection Board.

A former Super Eagles player, Victor Ikpeba, believes Chinedu Ogbuke and Yakubu Aiyegbeni could be the joker for coach Shaibu Amodu when Nigeria meets Tunisia on September 6 in Abuja.

It was a brilliant goal that capped a beautiful football evening. The turn out really showed that Lagos remains a great home of football, a position that Warri also has a tradition to contest, going by their passion.

When Enyimba placed third on the league table, their club chairman, Felix Anyansi-Agwu, promised their fans that they would make up with the FA Cup. The cup, he said, would assuage the hunger of their fans for a league title they felt they had everything to win.

The Football Federation last night at the Teslim Balogun Stadium still showed incompetence in the area of crowd control, a problem they have always encountered in hosting international matches in Abuja.

After Nigeria’s team to the 6th IAAF Youth Championships in Bressanone, Italy, failed to achieve anything of substance, attention shifts back to the local scene as athletes round off training ahead of the Mobil Track and Field Championship slated for next weekend in Abuja.

Shooting Stars boss, Mutiu Adepoju, has spoken about his greatest challenges in the passing season, and stresses that his ultimate dream is to cap 3SC’s sweet promotion by leading the club back to the continent.

Not many people will know that for the Lagos State Government which is footing the bills for the 2009 Federation Cup final (it used to be FA Cup before now), today’s epic match between former African Champions, Enyimba Football Club of Aba and Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt could not have been possible, or better still would have been colourless.